CVE-2018-0499
MEDIUM6.1EPSS 0.37%xapian-core Cross-site Scripting vulnerability
Published: 5/14/2022Modified: 4/28/2026
Description
A cross-site scripting vulnerability in queryparser/termgenerator_internal.cc in Xapian xapian-core before 1.4.6 exists due to incomplete HTML escaping by Xapian::MSet::snippet().
Affected packages (3)
- Alpine/xapian-corefrom 0, < 1.4.6-r0
- Debian/xapian-corefrom 0, < 1.4.6-1
- RubyGems/xapian-corefrom 0, < 1.4.6
CVSS scores
| Source | Version | Severity | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| osv | CVSS 3.1 | MEDIUM6.1 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:R/S:C/C:L/I:L/A:N |
References (7)
- ADVISORYhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-0499
- ADVISORYhttps://security.alpinelinux.org/vuln/CVE-2018-0499
- ADVISORYhttps://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2018-0499
- WEBhttps://github.com/rubysec/ruby-advisory-db/blob/master/gems/xapian-core/CVE-2018-0499.yml
- WEBhttps://lists.xapian.org/pipermail/xapian-discuss/2018-July/009652.html
- WEBhttps://trac.xapian.org/wiki/SecurityFixes/2018-07-02
- WEBhttps://usn.ubuntu.com/3709-1